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On the day Joseph is set over Egypt, Pharaoh gives him Asenath to wife.
GEN.41.45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over {all} the land of Egypt. {Zaphnathpaaneah: which in the Coptic signifies, A revealer of secrets, or, The man to whom secrets are revealed} {priest: or, prince}

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Asenath

Asenath was the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, and Pharaoh gave her to Joseph on the day he set him over Egypt. She bore Manasseh and Ephraim before the famine years began, and Jacob later claimed both of her sons as his own. Two of the twelve tribes of Israel descend from an Egyptian priest's daughter.

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Journey Timeline

  1. Pharaoh gives her to Josephc. 1884 BC

    Egypt

    On the day Joseph is set over Egypt, Pharaoh gives him Asenath to wife.

    GEN 41:45

  2. Manasseh is bornc. 1883 BC

    Egypt

    She bears a first son, and Joseph names him for the forgetting of his toil.

    GEN 41:51

  3. Ephraim is bornc. 1881 BC

    Egypt

    She bears a second son before the years of famine come.

    GEN 41:52

  4. Her sons counted with Israelc. 1859 BC

    Egypt

    The list of those in Egypt names her as the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

    GEN 46:20

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